Japan's Ig Nobel prize for pigeon poop Yukio Hiroseof Kanazawa University in Japan gives his acceptance speech for the Ig Nobel chemistry prize during the 2003 Ig Nobel ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003. Hirose was honored for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue in the city of Kanazawa that fails to attract pigeons. (AP Photo/Thu Oct 2,11:17 PM ET
